A Dead Good Blog

When poets are writing Ekphrastic poetry there’s a fair chance they’ll be looking at an object from years ago. How often are they watching t...

...of death, wh at dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause - there's the respect That makes cal...

This week’s theme of ekphrasis made me wonder, if various forms of art including painting, sculptures or dance can be distilled into a poe...

I have constructed a pome based on the pictures used by Standard in yesterday's post.  I think it might accurately reflect the combinati...

London, a badly surfaced road, sometime in August. Bradley Wiggins, rides a bicycle steadily, taking care not to be crushed by a taxi, blo...

As some of you will already know (because I keep harping on about it), I spent last week at a writing residential in North Wales. This is th...